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Latest — 14 Mar 2025

No Whammies! Like, Ever.

Before there was AI, there were game shows who cut corners on making their games and people with a lot of time on their hands who figured out how to beat the system. This is one of those stories. When I watched this trailer, I figured a story as strange

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Bluesky Migration Tool

Migrating to Bluesky
02 Feb 2025 1 min read

Skiing Perfect Snow in an Abandoned Japanese Ski Resort with Amazing Design

Everything about this trailer for this movie, "the ghost resorts - chapter 4: Super Saint-Bernard" is amazing. Skiing Super Saint-Bernard is on my bucket list. The snow, the design, the story. Great job by Black Crows.
02 Feb 2025 1 min read

Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary

"Its perfect sitting down, dance music." I have a soft spot in my heart for yacht rock, I spent a lot of time in my high school years listening to it on FM radio and it speaks to me. This movie which seems to trace the history of
02 Feb 2025 1 min read

ENO

ENO, a movie about Brian Eno.
02 Feb 2025 1 min read

Attention Merchants

Chris Hayes was on the Hard Fork podcast last week summarized the current state of the internet and social media perfectly last week. kevin roose: "He (Chris Hayes) argues that we are trapped in a system of attention gathering and maximization that we didn’t construct, that we don’
02 Feb 2025 3 min read

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